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No one, i hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. but the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.
-Thomas Jefferson
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No One, I Hope, Can Doubt My

Thomas Jefferson
No one, i hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. but the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.
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